YVAIN ! Éric Giraudet de Boudemange

Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019 Wednesday January, 16th

Theme : Performance followed by a gathering for the launch of the video game Yvain !

Yvain ! is a video game—a playable work of art—by Éric
Giraudet de Boudemange, developed in collaboration with video game maker
Tomavatars, following his residency at La Criée centre d’art contemporain.

This
experimental first-person adventure game was inspired by a passage from the
novel Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
by Chrétien de Troyes, written in the 12th century. Yvain the broken-hearted
knight flees civilization. He plunges into the forest, ditching his clothes,
losing his speech and reason. In this contemporary interpretation, we guide the
main character through an absurd and quirky medieval world at the pace of his
lament, in a cross between courtly love and Game
of Thrones.

The
video game is the fruit of two friendships: La Criée centre d’art contemporain
has been working with video game creator Tomavatars since 2015, and with artist
Éric Giraudet de Boudemange since 2017. The artist began his research into the
medieval savage during his residency at the ESPE (École Supérieure du
Professorat et de l’Éducation) in Rennes in January 2018, for which he
produced the video installation Yvain, mout fus or oublians. From
December 2018 to February 2019, during a residency at La Binquenais college in
Rennes, Éric Giraudet de Boudemange and Tomavatars will use Yvain! as the basis for a second video game they
will create with students.

Éric
Giraudet de Boudemange is developing a series of works revolving around the
figure of the savage and his contemporary representations, scientific
language-experiments on pop-culture primates (Tarzan). His previous projects
were presented at the Fondation Ricard and Rinomina in Paris, and at Billytown
in the Hague.

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Since
2014, La Criée centre d’art contemporain has been working with artists to experiment
with the production of digital works, computer games and applications, either
echoing an exhibition, or in the context of series, workshops or regional
projects.

2014: Amalia
Pica

2015: Joris
Favennec, Battre la Campagne

2016: Mioshe, Humanopancton2017: Clémence Estève, Remise en jeu

2018: Éric Giraudet
de Boudemange, Yvain !

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correspondances.la-criee.org

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fabrique

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Éric
Giraudet de Boudemange, born in 1983 in Boulogne
Billancourt, lives and works in Paris

Tomavatars (Thomas Rougeron), born in 1984 in Figeac, lives and works in Rennes

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